The shortlist has been selected for the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award, recognizing "the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues." The winner, who will receive £30,000 (about $40,300), will be announced December 3. The authors of the remaining shortlisted books will each be awarded £10,000 ($13,440).
The shortlisted titles:
House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China's Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou (Portfolio)
Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War by Edward Fishman (Portfolio)
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations by Carl Benedikt Frey (Princeton University Press)
Abundance: How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Simon & Schuster)
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (W.W. Norton)
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt (Viking)